Government history

Supreme power in a state

• Politics

• Dictatorship

• oligarchy

• sovereignty

the government makes and carrie’s put laws

• sovereignty

• politics

• monarchy

• legitimatecy

Right and proper

• legitimacy

• politics

• sovereignty

• Divine right of kings

Monarch’s rule by the sanction or approval by god

• monarch

• Divine right of kings

• liberty’s

• ideal

A social contract between the government and the governed to provide protection and support only so as long as the people agree to hand over the rights to the state

• self government

• unitary system

• social contract theory

A king or queen who practice’s absolute authority

• Diving right of kings

• monarch

• sovereignty

a dictator or small group of people who can hold ultimate power over a government

• Presidential system

• confederal system

• dictatorship

ruled by a small group of people usually the military or the economic elite

• oligarchy

• equality

• federalist

citizen’s met regularly to discuss issues of the day and to make laws and vote for leaders

• ideal

• republic

• direct democracy

people who elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf

• republic

• direct democracy

• legitimatcy